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DIG TO BE TERRIFIC, STATES NELSON
It will be sensational, stupendous, terrific, and hilarical.” Thus spake Art Nelson, Knight president, as he guaranteed Trojans an “on the dime” time at the first all-university Friday night dig tonight at 8:15.
With events slated to interest everyone, including dancing to a popular orchestra, card games, special entertainment, ping pong, volleyball, and other varied attractions, the social will be held in the men’s and women’s gyms.
“As this is really an all-university affair, every student is Invited and urged to attend,” Nelson elucidated. “This means everyone from sororities, fraternities, dorms, trainees, non-orgs, and veterans and their wives,” he continued.
Decorations will feature a cardinal and gold theme with posters of welcome and caricatures of all BMOCs and BWOCs placed at vantage points throughout the gyms, according to Mildred Campbell, decorations chairman.
Identification cards will be checked for admittance to the dig and students will be supplied with lapel identification tags. These tags will be of various colors in order to identify
LEE SCOTT ASSC president.
ART NELSON . Knight prexy.
entering freshmen.
“This dig has been especially planned so that -all Trojans can get acquainted, especially the new students and trainees who wish to select their five women now,” Midge del Bondio, acting ASSC social chairman, stated.
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Helen Hall Moreland, dean of women; Francis M. Bacon, dean of men, and Lee Scott, ASSC president, will stand in a receiving line in the men’s gym from 8:15 to 8:45 p.m. to welcome students.
An appeal for the Red Cross campus fund drive will be made at the dig by Virginia Walker, former Powers model now under contract to 20th Century-Fox studio. This will initiate thQ drive on the SC campus.
Entertainment for the evening will include Lois Oshier, Tommy Batten, and other outstanding campus talent. Cokes will be sold and cookies will be given gratis to all comers.
The dig has been planned by Nelson and class presidents Frank Crowhurst, Ellsworth Donnell, Carl Gebhart, and Ed Barthold working in conjunction with the ASSC social committee.
Sororities o gather at Griffith
Griffith park will be the locale for an afternoon of recreation and fellowship to be enjoyed by all pledges, old and new, of sororities on Sunday afternoon, announced Carol Harner, president of the pledge presidents council.
Planned to promote inter-sorority friendships among the pledges, the picnic inaugurates a new tradition on the Trojan campus. This is the first activity undertaken by the newly formed pledge presidents council, and it is the first scheduled all-pledge affair ever arranged by Troy’s Greek neophytes.
Picnicker* will meet at 1 Sunday afternoon at the merry-go-round. and go from there to the nearby lunching grounds. Transportation Ik being arranged individually by pledges of each house, with ears leaving from the row and from private homes under a share-the-ride system.
Each woman is asked to bring a x luncheon for herself, and will assigned a pledge from a different sorority with whom to lunch, n this way it is anticipated that nore sorority women will have the opportunity to know each other.
Slacks and play clothes are appropriate attire for the afternoon, a« various sports and games, in-rlnding baseball and tennis, are planned.
Accompanying the pledges on heir outing will be Miss Helen Hall foreland, dean of women, and Miss ances McHale, assistant to the ,ean of women.
"We want all you pledges to come ,nd enjoy yourselves and get acquainted with each other.” declared liss Harner, adding a plea for cooperation in putting over the ven-ura.
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1
U.S. first
Vol. XXXVI
72
Los Angeles, Friday, Mar. 9, 1945
Nisht Phon« RI. 5472
No. 75
Informality to be assembly keynote
★ ★ ★ ★
HOUSES SPONSOR R.C. RALLIES
Panhel prexy urges signing
All women who intend to go through the two-week informal rushing period must sign up imme-telv in the Panhellenic office, inia Hage, president of the Hellenic council, announced >’es-
V.
i
rmal rushing will begin Jy and the various houses will heir individual rushing events, j ging may be held at any time . ring the two-week period.
First welcome held for men, women vets
Informality will be the keynote of .the student assembly to be held in Bovard auditorium this morning at 11:35. .when SC's leaders are introduced to old and new Trojans. The gathering is an innovation, in that this is the first term .that the men’s and women's orientation assemblies have been held together.
Songs and yells of SC, as well as informal singing led by Charles Hirt, director of the men's and women's glee clubs, will be a feature of the program.
Presidents and chairmen representing campus organizations and classes will be introduced. “We hope that through these introductions freshmen and new students will learn of the various ways they can participate in Troy’s activities.” said Art Nelson, Knight president and freshman orientation chairman.
Emceeing the show. Nelson will present Lee Scott, student body president who will welcome Trojans. speak about the ASSC, and introduce Midge del Bondio, ASSC secretary.
Presidents Virginia Miller, Amazons; Virginia Hage, Panhellenic council; Helen Taylor, women’s orientation; Peggy Gardner, AWS; Colleen Phipps, Mortar Board; Mary Blake, War Board; Mary (Continued on Page Two)
CARMELITA WHITE . . . fund drive chairman.
MARY KAY DAMSON . . . "money, please!"
President will welcome vets
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid will welcome all veterans, both old and new, at an orientation reception to be given on Tuesday. The deans and directors of aU the va-rious divisions of the university will also be present. This reception will take place in the Student Lounge from 3 to 5 p.m.
Following President von Klein-Smid’s orientation speech. Lee Scott, ASSC president, and Bill Camm. representing the Interfraternity council, will extend greetings to the
veterans.
Veteran representative on campus, Mr. Charles Bender will be present at this open forum and get-together, and will give a short lecture upon the rights of the G.I. He will answer questions put foi»th by the veterans, concerning this subject.
The orientation reception presents an excellent opportunity for SC veterans to meet and discuss common problems, and to become acquainted with the entering veterans. Refreshments will be served.
Campus goal set at $2000 states chairman
Noon time rallies sponsored by SC sorority houses will highlight next week's Red Cross fund drive, pushing the campus toward its $2000 goal.
"Because of a slight change in plans, the assembly originally scheduled for tonight has been cancelled,” stated Mary Kay Damson, Red Cross chairman. The talent which will be offered at each noon’s floor J show next week will more than compensate for the lack of entertainment tonight.”
Carmelita White, in charge of the fund drive, announced that each sorority woman will be asked to contribute at least $5. “Interna- j .tional Red Cross increased activity during the present time is well known,” Miss White added, “money is needed to carry on this important work, and we feel sure everyone will want to help.”
The Victory Hut in front of Bovard will be open for donations from servicemen since the barracks will not be invaded for col-lections. Faculty members who might otherwise contribute in their home areas are urged to deal with the SC Red Cross unit instead, assisting the university in reaching its goal in the drive.
PARIS, Mar. 9. — (U.P.) — American first army troops have crossed the Rhine and early today were reported to have driven at least four miles beyond the east bank into inner Germany.
The initial crossing by a small U. S. force was made late Wednesday, but it was the signal for a general all out push across the Rhine at the unspecified point south of Cologne. Front yeports said thousands of first army troops streamed across the river, taking with them their big guns.
Front reports indicated that the first crossing was made on a bridge captured intact at Re-magen in one of the most brilliant coups of the European war.
This bridge — the double-track, five-span 917-foot Luedendorf rail bridge — is sufficient to carry the whole first army into Germany’s inner fortress within a matter of days.
The entire course of the war has been changed — and perhaps shortened by months — by the swift, demoralizing lunge across the river barrier on which a reeling: Germany pinned her hopes of holding off defeat In the west, reports from the front said.
There was no major resistance against the swiftly expanding bridgehead and the Germans already have been pushed back beyond light artillery range of the Rhine — at least four miles — it was made known at Allied supreme headquarters.
All facts concerning: the exact nature and point of the crossing were suppressed by censorship, which disclosed only that it was made at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the area between Cologne and Coblenz.
London reports, however, said the crossing was made at Remaeen and field dispatches said it was carried out by an infantry company commanded by a second lieutenant. A dispatch said the company completed the crossing in 15 minutes, indicating it crossed by bridge.
“We Just couldn't pass ud this opportunity even though our mission was not to cross the Rhine.” Maj. Frank Norfleet. Memphis, Tenn.. told Cunningham.
SC registration exceeds 9000
resident's office notice
A student body assembly is called for today at 11:35 a.m. The following schedule will govern class meetings on that date: 8-8:50 8:55-9:45 9:50-10:40 10:45-11:30 11:35-12:20 Assembly
Rufus B. von KleinSmid President
Social chairman applicants called
Applicants for the position of social chairman of the ASSC will be interviewed in the offices of Lee Scott, student body president, on Monday afternoon from 1:30 to 3:30.
Upper division women who have* a 1.5 cumulative grade average and a 1.5 for the past semester are eligible. The decision will aIco be bas?d on interest and present and past activity in campus affairs.
SC registration totaled about 9000 in Doth day and evening classes by late yesterday afteroon with no figures available as yet on the enrollment in the Schools of Medicine, Law. and the College of Dentistry, according to statistics released by university officials.
They pointed out that registration in all branches of the university was not complete, and that students who have not yet paid their fees are not included in the totals. Total registration last term exceeded 11.000. with about 5100 in day classes and more than 5000 in the evening courses. University
officials expect the complete registration to be more than last term’s final figures, which was a 10 per cent increase over the summer term.
The president’s office announced that day-class enrollment, as of Wednesday afternoon, was close to the 5000 mark. Miss Helen Haller, university statistician, has not completed breakdowns by classes, but that information will be released early next week, or after final enrollment figures are in.
University College enrollment to date is 1608, this includes new
students for the 16-week term, which began Monday, and holdovers from the 12-week term, which ends Mar. 23. Dr. E. W. Tiegs, dean of University College, said that this was an increase of 500 over the totals for the last 16-week term enrollment.
Students who wish to enroll In University College classes have until Mar. 17 to do so without paying the late registration fee of S3, which goes into effect on that date. Dean Tiegs said that enrollment in University College classes after that date is left to (Continued on Page Four)
Pigeon attends frosh gathering
“You could be swinging on a rafter” is a song that an ambitious pigeon might have cooed yesterday afternoon in the Student Lounge. Although unannounced by AWS President Peggy Gardner, a gray specimen of Trojan pigeonhood made a highly dramatic entrance into the freshman orientatfon assemblage.
Noisily flapping from perches from one end of the lounge to the other, his orientation tour included the rafters, windows, various ledges, and the grating before the fireplace, before he finally discovered an open window for a hasty egress.

DIG TO BE TERRIFIC, STATES NELSON
It will be sensational, stupendous, terrific, and hilarical.” Thus spake Art Nelson, Knight president, as he guaranteed Trojans an “on the dime” time at the first all-university Friday night dig tonight at 8:15.
With events slated to interest everyone, including dancing to a popular orchestra, card games, special entertainment, ping pong, volleyball, and other varied attractions, the social will be held in the men’s and women’s gyms.
“As this is really an all-university affair, every student is Invited and urged to attend,” Nelson elucidated. “This means everyone from sororities, fraternities, dorms, trainees, non-orgs, and veterans and their wives,” he continued.
Decorations will feature a cardinal and gold theme with posters of welcome and caricatures of all BMOCs and BWOCs placed at vantage points throughout the gyms, according to Mildred Campbell, decorations chairman.
Identification cards will be checked for admittance to the dig and students will be supplied with lapel identification tags. These tags will be of various colors in order to identify
LEE SCOTT ASSC president.
ART NELSON . Knight prexy.
entering freshmen.
“This dig has been especially planned so that -all Trojans can get acquainted, especially the new students and trainees who wish to select their five women now,” Midge del Bondio, acting ASSC social chairman, stated.
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Helen Hall Moreland, dean of women; Francis M. Bacon, dean of men, and Lee Scott, ASSC president, will stand in a receiving line in the men’s gym from 8:15 to 8:45 p.m. to welcome students.
An appeal for the Red Cross campus fund drive will be made at the dig by Virginia Walker, former Powers model now under contract to 20th Century-Fox studio. This will initiate thQ drive on the SC campus.
Entertainment for the evening will include Lois Oshier, Tommy Batten, and other outstanding campus talent. Cokes will be sold and cookies will be given gratis to all comers.
The dig has been planned by Nelson and class presidents Frank Crowhurst, Ellsworth Donnell, Carl Gebhart, and Ed Barthold working in conjunction with the ASSC social committee.
Sororities o gather at Griffith
Griffith park will be the locale for an afternoon of recreation and fellowship to be enjoyed by all pledges, old and new, of sororities on Sunday afternoon, announced Carol Harner, president of the pledge presidents council.
Planned to promote inter-sorority friendships among the pledges, the picnic inaugurates a new tradition on the Trojan campus. This is the first activity undertaken by the newly formed pledge presidents council, and it is the first scheduled all-pledge affair ever arranged by Troy’s Greek neophytes.
Picnicker* will meet at 1 Sunday afternoon at the merry-go-round. and go from there to the nearby lunching grounds. Transportation Ik being arranged individually by pledges of each house, with ears leaving from the row and from private homes under a share-the-ride system.
Each woman is asked to bring a x luncheon for herself, and will assigned a pledge from a different sorority with whom to lunch, n this way it is anticipated that nore sorority women will have the opportunity to know each other.
Slacks and play clothes are appropriate attire for the afternoon, a« various sports and games, in-rlnding baseball and tennis, are planned.
Accompanying the pledges on heir outing will be Miss Helen Hall foreland, dean of women, and Miss ances McHale, assistant to the ,ean of women.
"We want all you pledges to come ,nd enjoy yourselves and get acquainted with each other.” declared liss Harner, adding a plea for cooperation in putting over the ven-ura.
A
1
U.S. first
Vol. XXXVI
72
Los Angeles, Friday, Mar. 9, 1945
Nisht Phon« RI. 5472
No. 75
Informality to be assembly keynote
★ ★ ★ ★
HOUSES SPONSOR R.C. RALLIES
Panhel prexy urges signing
All women who intend to go through the two-week informal rushing period must sign up imme-telv in the Panhellenic office, inia Hage, president of the Hellenic council, announced >’es-
V.
i
rmal rushing will begin Jy and the various houses will heir individual rushing events, j ging may be held at any time . ring the two-week period.
First welcome held for men, women vets
Informality will be the keynote of .the student assembly to be held in Bovard auditorium this morning at 11:35. .when SC's leaders are introduced to old and new Trojans. The gathering is an innovation, in that this is the first term .that the men’s and women's orientation assemblies have been held together.
Songs and yells of SC, as well as informal singing led by Charles Hirt, director of the men's and women's glee clubs, will be a feature of the program.
Presidents and chairmen representing campus organizations and classes will be introduced. “We hope that through these introductions freshmen and new students will learn of the various ways they can participate in Troy’s activities.” said Art Nelson, Knight president and freshman orientation chairman.
Emceeing the show. Nelson will present Lee Scott, student body president who will welcome Trojans. speak about the ASSC, and introduce Midge del Bondio, ASSC secretary.
Presidents Virginia Miller, Amazons; Virginia Hage, Panhellenic council; Helen Taylor, women’s orientation; Peggy Gardner, AWS; Colleen Phipps, Mortar Board; Mary Blake, War Board; Mary (Continued on Page Two)
CARMELITA WHITE . . . fund drive chairman.
MARY KAY DAMSON . . . "money, please!"
President will welcome vets
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid will welcome all veterans, both old and new, at an orientation reception to be given on Tuesday. The deans and directors of aU the va-rious divisions of the university will also be present. This reception will take place in the Student Lounge from 3 to 5 p.m.
Following President von Klein-Smid’s orientation speech. Lee Scott, ASSC president, and Bill Camm. representing the Interfraternity council, will extend greetings to the
veterans.
Veteran representative on campus, Mr. Charles Bender will be present at this open forum and get-together, and will give a short lecture upon the rights of the G.I. He will answer questions put foi»th by the veterans, concerning this subject.
The orientation reception presents an excellent opportunity for SC veterans to meet and discuss common problems, and to become acquainted with the entering veterans. Refreshments will be served.
Campus goal set at $2000 states chairman
Noon time rallies sponsored by SC sorority houses will highlight next week's Red Cross fund drive, pushing the campus toward its $2000 goal.
"Because of a slight change in plans, the assembly originally scheduled for tonight has been cancelled,” stated Mary Kay Damson, Red Cross chairman. The talent which will be offered at each noon’s floor J show next week will more than compensate for the lack of entertainment tonight.”
Carmelita White, in charge of the fund drive, announced that each sorority woman will be asked to contribute at least $5. “Interna- j .tional Red Cross increased activity during the present time is well known,” Miss White added, “money is needed to carry on this important work, and we feel sure everyone will want to help.”
The Victory Hut in front of Bovard will be open for donations from servicemen since the barracks will not be invaded for col-lections. Faculty members who might otherwise contribute in their home areas are urged to deal with the SC Red Cross unit instead, assisting the university in reaching its goal in the drive.
PARIS, Mar. 9. — (U.P.) — American first army troops have crossed the Rhine and early today were reported to have driven at least four miles beyond the east bank into inner Germany.
The initial crossing by a small U. S. force was made late Wednesday, but it was the signal for a general all out push across the Rhine at the unspecified point south of Cologne. Front yeports said thousands of first army troops streamed across the river, taking with them their big guns.
Front reports indicated that the first crossing was made on a bridge captured intact at Re-magen in one of the most brilliant coups of the European war.
This bridge — the double-track, five-span 917-foot Luedendorf rail bridge — is sufficient to carry the whole first army into Germany’s inner fortress within a matter of days.
The entire course of the war has been changed — and perhaps shortened by months — by the swift, demoralizing lunge across the river barrier on which a reeling: Germany pinned her hopes of holding off defeat In the west, reports from the front said.
There was no major resistance against the swiftly expanding bridgehead and the Germans already have been pushed back beyond light artillery range of the Rhine — at least four miles — it was made known at Allied supreme headquarters.
All facts concerning: the exact nature and point of the crossing were suppressed by censorship, which disclosed only that it was made at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the area between Cologne and Coblenz.
London reports, however, said the crossing was made at Remaeen and field dispatches said it was carried out by an infantry company commanded by a second lieutenant. A dispatch said the company completed the crossing in 15 minutes, indicating it crossed by bridge.
“We Just couldn't pass ud this opportunity even though our mission was not to cross the Rhine.” Maj. Frank Norfleet. Memphis, Tenn.. told Cunningham.
SC registration exceeds 9000
resident's office notice
A student body assembly is called for today at 11:35 a.m. The following schedule will govern class meetings on that date: 8-8:50 8:55-9:45 9:50-10:40 10:45-11:30 11:35-12:20 Assembly
Rufus B. von KleinSmid President
Social chairman applicants called
Applicants for the position of social chairman of the ASSC will be interviewed in the offices of Lee Scott, student body president, on Monday afternoon from 1:30 to 3:30.
Upper division women who have* a 1.5 cumulative grade average and a 1.5 for the past semester are eligible. The decision will aIco be bas?d on interest and present and past activity in campus affairs.
SC registration totaled about 9000 in Doth day and evening classes by late yesterday afteroon with no figures available as yet on the enrollment in the Schools of Medicine, Law. and the College of Dentistry, according to statistics released by university officials.
They pointed out that registration in all branches of the university was not complete, and that students who have not yet paid their fees are not included in the totals. Total registration last term exceeded 11.000. with about 5100 in day classes and more than 5000 in the evening courses. University
officials expect the complete registration to be more than last term’s final figures, which was a 10 per cent increase over the summer term.
The president’s office announced that day-class enrollment, as of Wednesday afternoon, was close to the 5000 mark. Miss Helen Haller, university statistician, has not completed breakdowns by classes, but that information will be released early next week, or after final enrollment figures are in.
University College enrollment to date is 1608, this includes new
students for the 16-week term, which began Monday, and holdovers from the 12-week term, which ends Mar. 23. Dr. E. W. Tiegs, dean of University College, said that this was an increase of 500 over the totals for the last 16-week term enrollment.
Students who wish to enroll In University College classes have until Mar. 17 to do so without paying the late registration fee of S3, which goes into effect on that date. Dean Tiegs said that enrollment in University College classes after that date is left to (Continued on Page Four)
Pigeon attends frosh gathering
“You could be swinging on a rafter” is a song that an ambitious pigeon might have cooed yesterday afternoon in the Student Lounge. Although unannounced by AWS President Peggy Gardner, a gray specimen of Trojan pigeonhood made a highly dramatic entrance into the freshman orientatfon assemblage.
Noisily flapping from perches from one end of the lounge to the other, his orientation tour included the rafters, windows, various ledges, and the grating before the fireplace, before he finally discovered an open window for a hasty egress.